I click on the activities settings icon in the top-left corner of my screen -the one that looks like a small cogwheel-Click on ... ActivitiesClick on + create activityin the window Create a New Activity -- Plasma General tab I enter a name and description for the activityIn the tab Other I go to Shortcut for switching to this activity: and click in the boxI press Shift Ctrl DClick on CreateNow press Shift Ctrl D ... Nothing happens

Shutdown and restart the system to my default acivity, not the one I created in the step aboveNow press Shift Ctrl D ... Nothing happens

Sorry to receive zero replies.It is now 2017-07-17 and I have upgraded to Linux Mint 18.2 KDE Plasma 5.8.7 KDE frameworks version 5.36.0 Qt version 5.6.1Still if I make a new activity and give it a keyboard shortcut. The name I have given does not show in system settings. My activities are shown by a long string of seemingly random characters. The keyboard shortcut is shown. But throuout the system it is not possible to switch activities using a keyboard shortcut.Everything works fine using mouseclicks

We find that Alt+Q brings up the Activities Manager with a search box, so you can start typing the activity name until it shrinks to the one you want.

You should be able to click on the settings for each activity in the Activity Manager and set a shortcut to go to that [Activity]. But they don't work. We also tried setting them with Kicker. But they don't stick: Bug 342186 - Global shortcuts do not work to control activity switching: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342186 → marked as fixed but as the comments told it is broken

Create keyboard shortcutsNow you have everything you need to create a keyboard shortcut for an activity. 1. Go to System Settings → Common Appearance and Behavior → Shortcuts and Gestures → Custom Shortcuts. 2. Click on Edit → New → Global Shortcut → D-Bus Command. 3. Enter a name for the shortcut. In the Trigger tab, click on the button that says None and press the shortcut you want to use (e.g. Meta+F1).

We find that Alt+Q brings up the Activities Manager with a search box, so you can start typing the activity name until it shrinks to the one you want.

You should be able to click on the settings for each activity in the Activity Manager and set a shortcut to go to that [Activity]. But they don't work. We also tried setting them with Kicker. But they don't stick: Bug 342186 - Global shortcuts do not work to control activity switching: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342186 → marked as fixed but as the comments told it is broken

Create keyboard shortcutsNow you have everything you need to create a keyboard shortcut for an activity. 1. Go to System Settings → Common Appearance and Behavior → Shortcuts and Gestures → Custom Shortcuts. 2. Click on Edit → New → Global Shortcut → D-Bus Command. 3. Enter a name for the shortcut. In the Trigger tab, click on the button that says None and press the shortcut you want to use (e.g. Meta+F1).